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7 minutes ago, ElCid said:
Sorry, don't know that story.
I'll give ya the Reader's Digest version here then...
John Wayne: "Ya know, they're gonna HATE you throughout this country for what you're about to do in this scene, don't ya?!"
Bruce Dern: "Yeah, but they're gonna LOVE me in Berkeley!"
(...told ya it was funny, now didn't I?!)
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2 minutes ago, ElCid said:
Perhaps he is referring to Asner's real world politics?
Yeah, ya THINK?!!!
(...and which somehow reminded me of what Bruce Dern told John Wayne just before they filmed Wayne's death scene in The Cowboys...you know THAT one don't ya, Cid?!...that story STILL cracks me up every time I think of it)
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56 minutes ago, jvirt53 said:
Last night caught Ed Asner's death scene in the John Wayne movie El Dorado. Very appropriate.
A happy ending for a real socialist.
Funny, but I don't remember Asner's character Bart Jason, a wealthy land baron, bein' any sort'a "socialist" there, cowboy!
(...land barons usually don't lean that way, ya know)
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51 minutes ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Here are the ages of the rest of the cast, *=still living as of today
Betty White 99*
Cloris Leachman 94
Ed Asner 91
Gavin MacLeod 90
John Amos 81*
Mary Tyler Moore 80
Valerie Harper 80
Georgia Engel 70
And...
Joyce Bulifant 83*
(...well, with 11 appearances on the show, and that being only 2 less than John Amos, I think she deserves a mention here TOO, Jim)
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1 hour ago, lavenderblue19 said:
(ps- you remember the question Ed asks Tom because it's about your lookalike, James Coburn, LOL)
LOL
Yep, pretty much.
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57 minutes ago, LuckyDan said:
It wouldn't be relevant. The trigger is a white actor (saying "actress" might be another trigger - is TCM still using that word?) a white actor I say playing a dark-skinned character. Nobody who objects to that is going to back off because she was a Brit.
Yes, yes, they're still saying the word "actress" here.
In fact, just the other day I distinctly heard Ben say the word.
(...although of course the way HE said it and as he ALWAYS says it, it sounded more like "AAACK-tress")
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1 hour ago, sewhite2000 said:
Copied and pasted from my own post in the September schedule thread, information swiped from MCOH and others, here's what TCM is showing in primetime on September 1:
They Died with Their Boots On (Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland) (Warner Bros., 1941)
Key Largo (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall) (Warner Bros., 1948)
The Barkleys of Broadway (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers) (MGM, 1949)
Mogambo (Clark Gable, Ava Gardner) (MGM, 1953)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn) (Columbia, 1967)Nothing earth-shatteringly different, pretty standard in-library TCM fare. The content between the airing of the features might be different, however.
Through my connections with TCM (or whatever the name of the channel is going to be starting in a couple of days), I've got a copy of what the hosts are gonna say in their intros for each one of these flicks. And so without further ado...
They Died with Their Boots On (Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland) (Warner Bros., 1941) ..."The portrayal of George Armstrong Custer in this movie doesn't really show how the guy was an out and out egomaniac. Courageous to be sure, but not the best battle tactician the West Point Academy would ever produce."
Key Largo (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall) (Warner Bros., 1948) ... "The small role that Jay Silverheels plays in this one was originally offered to Mickey Rooney, but Rooney felt his talents might better be utilized to play a Japanese-American man later in his career and in the event one might be offered to him. And so having refused the role, Silverheels would get the part of a Native-American man by default.
The Barkleys of Broadway (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers) (MGM, 1949) ..."This film presents the last paring of Astaire and the woman who so effortlessly and gracefully was able to dance backwards and in high heels to every move Astaire ever initiated, and something HE could have never done even if his life depended upon it."
Mogambo (Clark Gable, Ava Gardner) (MGM, 1953)..."Ava Gardner is sure hot as hell in this movie you're about to watch, and a hell of a lot sexier than white bread Grace Kelly is." (okay, so this one is really what I'd like Ben Mankiewicz to say...in that nasally voice of his)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn) (Columbia, 1967)..."We're not about to mention the out and out racist mindset that the actor who plays Sidney Poitier's father in the film you're about to watch to shown expressing. And because, well because, THAT wouldn't be very 'woke' of us, now would it?!"
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15 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
I was stunned to see a thread I started two years ago back up on Page One. Looking at the thread title, I couldn't imagine what it was about!
Uh-huh sewhite, and thus yet ANOTHER reason why I personally start so few threads around here.
(...I don't want 'em to come back and haunt me like this)
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3 minutes ago, Allhallowsday said:
The old bee atch... 🤣
LOL
Well, ONLY if Jimmy, ahem, I mean if GEORGE had never been born, of course.
Btw and as you might know Allhallows, while Beulah was usually cast as the more doting motherly type, she was REALLY good at playing what you just called her here in 1941's The Shepherd of the Hills...
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Beat THIS one!
Beulah Bondi...and all in one movie and even as the very same character! And in of course, this one particular perennial Christmas flick here...
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6 hours ago, lavenderblue19 said:
Ed Asner, wonderful solid actor. Always a quality performance. A few weeks ago, I watched an episode of Blue Bloods that he guest starred in. He gave a touching performance.
No one could have been a better Lou Grant. He was great in comedy or drama. So funny as Lou on the MTM show and great as Lou Grant in the tv drama he starred in. Besides his great acting ability, he was known as a kind, generous, humanitarian.
Thanks Ed Asner for the many hours of great entertainment, you were one of a kind.
RIP Ed Asner
I also watched that episode of Blue Bloods, lavender, and when it was first run (I try never to miss a first run episode of that program) and yeah, I also thought Ed Asner's portrayal of Frank Reagan's first ever boss as the old movie theater owner was terrific.
Asner was the true pro right to the very end, alright.
R.I.P.
(...btw, do you remember the movie trivia question that Asner asks Selleck in that episode?...and did you know the answer?...I did)
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5 hours ago, TopBilled said:
Yeah, Lou Grant should have run anywhere from 7 to 10 seasons. It was far from done, from a writing and performance standpoint. The word is that CBS chairman Bill Paley got a call from Reagan asking that it be taken off the air. Paley was a Republican and he obliged.
Also the show's main sponsor, Kimberly-Clark, was pressured to withdraw its support of the series.
Yep! I remember being JUST as ticked-off at the cancellation of the Lou Grant series (which was as one of the highest quality programs one could watch on network television at that time) as I had been about ten years earlier and after CBS cancelled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and pretty much for the same damn stupid reason.
(...yep TB, I agree...TOTALLY!!!)
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Ya know Bronxie, I'm not sure that I've ever watched the movie "Fluffy" before. However, I DO remember once watching a movie titled "Fluffer" sometime back in the mid-1970s.
Uh-huh, right there in the old Pussycat Theater along Santa Monica Blvd.
(...don't recall there bein' any sort'a felines in this movie though, nor Tony Randall bein' in it either)
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7 hours ago, scsu1975 said:
Did you save a photo of yourself as I did?
Ya know Rich, in that big box of old family photos I have, I think I just might have an old snapshot that my parents took of me in the whole Zorro garb and at just about this same age as you here.
Lookin' good there, buddy!
(...err, I guess I should say "mi amigo" here, huh)
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OH, and btw here, Dave...
14 minutes ago, David Guercio said:
I really think everything will be fine and that we’ll have nothing to worry about. We’ll find out September 1st and thanks for the comment TopBilled. People have said all the time that I have really great. Creative and interesting ideas. That’s how I come up with who I’d like to see as SOTM sometime and everything I’d like to see on here sometime. Like we’d still like to see Rick Moranis as a guest programmer sometime too right and I still think you and I should request stuff together on here sometime. Like Rick Moranis as a guest programmer sometime. That’s a start right? So let’s all not give up hope on this refresh everybody. Just think positive like me and with me. I’m sure everything will be fine and we’ll have nothing to worry about....I ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY agree with you about this whole thing probably bein' (and as The Bard once titled one of his plays) Much Ado About Nothing!!!
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3 minutes ago, David Guercio said:
I really think everything will be fine and that we’ll have nothing to worry about. We’ll find out September 1st and thanks for the comment TopBilled. People have said all the time that I have really great. Creative and interesting ideas. That’s how I come up with who I’d like to see as SOTM sometime and everything I’d like to see on here sometime. Like we’d still like to see Rick Moranis as a guest programmer sometime too right and I still think you and I should request stuff together on here sometime. Like Rick Moranis as a guest programmer sometime. That’s a start right? So let’s all not give up hope on this refresh everybody. Just think positive like me and with me. I’m sure everything will be fine and we’ll have nothing to worry about.Lemme guess here, Dave.
Honey, I Shunk the Kids is your absolute, numero uno, top o' the list favorite flick of all time, RIGHT?!
(...oh, just a wild guess here, that's all)
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3 minutes ago, yanceycravat said:
I'm not. Nor "The Facebook" or "The Gram". Hope never to be.
"Social Media is the place you go to apologize for that thing you said yesterday!" - Glenn Taranto
Uh-huh, and neither is THIS long-standing TCM forum contributor HERE, yancey ol' boy.
However IF I was, I doubt I'd "apologize" for anything I would have said the day before in those social media sites.
As my philosophy in these regards had been and will CONTINUE be that ol' saw: "Screw 'em if they can't take a joke!"
(...yeah yeah, I know...isn't that just so "un-PC" now days?!)
LOL
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9 minutes ago, Hurding Katz said:
"Apparently the last two pages’ worth of commenters haven’t seen TCM’s replies on Twitter saying they will continue showing Golden Age Hollywood films, won’t be adding commercials, and that people will be able to watch the channel as they currently do. I don’t think we’re looking at any drastic changes. "
Not everyone's on Twitter.
Uh-huh, and especially not the regulars around HERE!
(...btw...loved your very first posting up there, HK...some very good points made in it, newbie...welcome to the boards)
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31 minutes ago, LsDoorMat said:
From my understanding NBC/Universal has absolute and total control of that film and will never let go. As late as the late 1980s it was a public domain Christmas staple on every channel. I had a boyfriend at the time whose mission was to watch It's A Wonderful Life as many times as possible every Christmas season to the neglect of everything else - his work, his housekeeping, and me.
LOL
Wow! Sounds as if you got to the point in this relationship to where you started wishing HE was never born, eh LS?!
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22 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Does NBC have the rights to it all year, or just in December?
I wouldn't be averse to it airing on TCM in February or March as part of 31 Days of Oscar. It had five Oscar nominations, winning one Oscar in a technical category.
As far as I know, NBCUniversal owns the broadcast rights to it 365 days of the year, TB.
And, only allows the USA cable network (which NBCUniversal also owns) to also show it.
(...with, once again, all those damn commercials)
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Okay, HERE'S what I'd tell 'em and BEFORE they'd even ask the question: "What date in December is TCM going the show It's a Wonderful Life?", I'd tell 'em TCM isn't ever going to show It's a Wonderful Life and because the NBC Television Network has owned the sole rights to show that flick on TV(and interrupted every ten freakin' minutes or so with some freakin' commercial) for about thirty years now.
Ya see, THIS way I'd be PROACTIVE here!
And because YOU KNOW we're gonna get THAT damn question asked on these boards AT LEAST five or six times by various newbies to this channel and starting just about when Thanksgiving rolls around again this year!
(...yep, that's what I'D tell a newbie to this channel, alright!)
LOL
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9 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
Yep. And according to David Niven, Flynn and Olivia had that chemistry often OFF screen as well.
I never saw Flynn's ROBIN HOOD until I was an adult. And like DARG, I too grooved on Disney's ZORRO TV show. And MY introduction to ROBIN HOOD was around the same time.
Never had that Zorro mask though.
Sepiatone
Yep, I think my first exposure to the Robin Hood saga was probably watching this '50s British television series starring Richard Greene back as a kid too, Sepia.
♪♪Robin Hood, Robin Hood
Riding through the glen
Robin Hood, Robin Hood
With his band of men
Feared by the bad
Loved by the good
Robin Hood, Robin Hood
Robin Hood ♪♪
Ah yes. I remember it well.
(...and btw...so it seems we can now add this Zorro outfit to the list of toys that I had back in the day and that you didn't, eh?!)
LOL
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11 hours ago, slaytonf said:
Gotta love the mustache.
Yeah, it's even kind'a like the ones Don Ameche and George Brent had, isn't it slayton.
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4 hours ago, Bethluvsfilms said:
I remember from Disney's animated ROBIN HOOD from the 70's, Prince John had everybody in the forest arrested and jailed merely for laughing at him from the mocking song of him sung by Little John.
One can imagine how Claude Rains' Prince John would have responded to such a humiliation.
Yes, but Beth, do you remember THIS Disney live action Zorro TV series from the late-'50?
Well I do, and in fact back then, I even had this nifty little official Disney Zorro package here...
(...and yes, I made a very dashing little six year old whenever I donned this little number TOO!)
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Ed Asner (1929-2021)
in General Discussions
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It's right up there above this post of yours here, Sepia.